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Cytoplasm

The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.

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Centrosome 76% connected

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is o…

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Ectoplasm 76% connected

The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

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Endoplasm 76% connected

The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.

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Plasmodium 76% connected

A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

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Syncytium 76% connected

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass o…

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Protoplasm 76% connected

The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secre…

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Cell 70% connected

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

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Active transport noun · 78% connection

transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of…

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Apoptosis noun · 78% connection

a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…

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Caspase-mediated cell death noun · 78% connection

a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…

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cell membrane noun · 78% connection

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…

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Cell organ noun · 78% connection

a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus"

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Cell organelle noun · 78% connection

a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus"

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Chromatin noun · 78% connection

the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses…

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Chromatin granule noun · 78% connection

the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses…

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Chromosome noun · 78% connection

a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex…

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Cytol noun · 78% connection

the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism

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Cytomembrane noun · 78% connection

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…

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Cytoskeleton noun · 78% connection

a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence

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Dictyosome noun · 78% connection

a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

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Golgi apparatus noun · 78% connection

a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

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Golgi body noun · 78% connection

a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

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Golgi complex noun · 78% connection

a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

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lysosome noun · 78% connection

an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

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Mitosis noun · 78% connection

cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes

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CD8 cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, body, cell, distinguished, karyoplasma.
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CD8 T cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

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Cystoplast noun · 78% connection

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

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Cytoblast noun · 78% connection

The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

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Cytotoxic T cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

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Diaster noun · 78% connection

A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two gro…

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Enchylemma noun · 78% connection

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of…

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Erythrocyte noun · 78% connection

a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus

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Impregnation noun · 78% connection

The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the…

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Karyokinesis noun · 78% connection

The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, atte…

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Karyolysis noun · 78% connection

disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies

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Karyomiton noun · 78% connection

The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the networ…

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Karyoplasma noun · 78% connection

The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell.

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Killer cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

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Killer T cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

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Kytoplasma noun · 78% connection

See Karyoplasma. L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liqu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: substance, body, cell, distinguished, karyoplasma.
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Mother cell noun · 78% connection

cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell"

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